CRANSTON, R.I. (WPRI) — When General Douglas MacArthur accepted Japan’s surrender during World War II in Tokyo Bay, John DeLeo of Johnston was there. DeLeo enlisted in the Navy at the age of ...

General Douglas MacArthur had returned to the Philippines and Army and Navy were ranked Nos. 1 and 2. World War II was far from over, but this game would help with the war effort. After conferring ...

During a raid on his illegal whiskey distilling operation in 1921, Williams was accused of killing a deputy. After he got out of prison, he helped to design a gun that armed soldiers during World War ...

These were Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Soldiers, who fought America's first battle of World War II — the Philippine Division — probably the best trained and possibly the best prepared U.S. Army ...

General Douglas MacArthur, 1905. Library of Congress ... surrender on board the "U.S.S. Missouri," bringing an end to World War II. His place as a leading figure of the 20th century already ...

February marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Manila. Fought in the closing months of World War II, the operation to ...

General Macarthur and other senior Army officers ... Occupation official turned historian Richard B. Finn notes, "World War II was the first major conflict in history in which the victors carried ...

CRANSTON, R.I. (WPRI) — When General Douglas MacArthur accepted Japan’s surrender during World War II in Tokyo Bay, John DeLeo of Johnston was there. DeLeo enlisted in the Navy at the age of ...

“More than 8 million Allied soldiers carried the M-1 carbine, a light, semiautomatic rifle, in World War II. General Douglas MacArthur described the weapon as ‘one of the strongest ...